Word: savings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...economic crisis continues, more households are growing their own vegetables as a way to save cash. Seed sales at two gardening companies, W. Atlee Burpee and Park Seed, have soared 20% in 2009. The National Gardening Association expects home gardening in general to increase 20% this year...
...help bridge this gap, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed shorting schools $2.1 billion during the rest of this academic year and $3.1 billion the next. He wants to save an additional $1.1 billion by reducing the number of school days, from 180 to 175. Though the extra time off might cheer students, California school superintendent Jack O'Connell strenuously opposes the move. Best sound bite: "To close the achievement gap and prepare all students for success in the competitive global economy, we should be offering more time in class, not less...
...districts are running out of cash for subsidized meal programs. The Hayward district is planning layoffs that would increase class size in primary grades from 20 students to 32. In Lake Elsinore, schools have turned off the lights in many rooms - and placed duct tape over the switches - to save money on electricity bills...
...every kid in grades 6 through 12. At the fast-growing Forsyth County Schools District in Cumming, Ga., Bailey Mitchell, chief technology and information officer, recently opted to use free open-source software instead of purchasing expensive software licenses from vendors like Microsoft. Mitchell says the decision will save $1.1 million over three years. "We sat back and recognized the money we needed simply wasn't going to materialize out of thin air," he says...
...more than a doctor and a medical expert to me,” Pope said. “He is an advocate of the proposition that we can save lives, understand interrelations with politics, wealth, and disease...